This lovely Fire festival is coming on 1st May , so it would be a good idea to start to become aware of what “light’s your fire” – that way you will be ready to align with it on the big day!
Beltane is the perfect time of year to enhance the qualities associated with Fire because it is a festival which resonates with the energy of Fire and new growth and fertility of all kinds. In the old days it was a fertility festival, so why not run with the energy rather than resist it? Align with it and let it flow in, through ad around you, helping you get what you want in your life. Fire is so good at this because its greatest gift to us is change and transmutation… almost instantaneously!
Think about what fills you with all the energies associated with Fire – excitement, energy, creativity, joy and, of course, happiness.. and be aware that Fire will ignite any of these things. I mean if you are happy it will allow you to feel really, really happy … and who wouldn’t want that?
So think about what you want to use the energy of Beltane for in your life right now and make a conscious connection on 1st May, letting it flow into you and your life.
One easy way to do this is to start meditating with flames – a real one using a candle or just a visualisation of a flame. All you have to do is breathe the energy into your system.. and a good place to do this is through your solar plexus chakra because this is where the element of Fire lives in your energy system. You can simply use your breath to draw in the energy of Fire into the chakra on your inbreath and release anything it has cleared as black smoke on your outbreath. After a while when the energy of the chakra has been cleared completely, just breathe the energy of Fire into your system to enhance whatever else you want to do. It really is that simple.
The most basic use of Fire in the chakra system is simply to draw the energy in to cleanse each chakra in turn because that’s what Fire does – it transmutes negative energy. So you can just do that if you don’t want to do anything else. Simply sit with a candle and breathe the energy created by the flame into each chakra (and energy body) until you feel really, really clean.
You can also breathe Fire into all the other chakras to stimulate the qualities held in them. If you draw it into the base, you can intend to ignite and enhance the life force energy stored there … if you draw it into your sacral, you can intend to ignite your creativity. You get the idea! The only thing which will limit what can do with the energy of Fire will, of course, be what you think you can or cannot do with it. It will be your mind which limits you, not the Fire element.
So before 1st May think about what you can do to bring the energy of Fire into your life in a very real way. Then on the day make an effort to do something to bring you into resonance with the first day of Spring on the Wheel of the Year… yes, Summer doesn’t start until summer solstice. We are just entering the really potent first stage of outward growth at Beltane, fuelled by Fire to bring about radical change in our lives through the transmutational qualities of the element of Fire. How exciting is that?
So a few ways to do connect with Fire in a practical way are:
• Create something – anything! As long as it makes you happy while you are creating it!
• Give up being responsible (within reason, I hasten to add!) for the day and just do something which is fun and brings you a great deal of pleasure.
• Find a way to stimulate all five senses – but only with things that please you.
• Make a list of things which bring joy into your life and do at least one of them!
• Carnelian is the crystal associated with Fire, Wear it or meditate with it, asking it to bless you with the energy of Fire which resides within it.
The only thing I would add to that list is possibly – don’t forget the fire elementals – the very lovely salamaders. Meditate with them. Journey with them and see where they take you …. They are lovely beings! Though, of course, as usual, I may be a tad biased being shaman!
A simple Fire meditation is to connect to the Fire element held in the Sun, which is, of course, made of Fire!
• GROUND! This is a powerful energy – you know how BIG the Sun is, after all!!! Connecting with it on a conscious level can be very impressive!
• Sit quietly and intend to breathe in the energy of the Sun, asking for it to ignite a spark in your solar plexus and light your Inner Fire (or the Fire element within you).
• See this spark growing and growing with each in breath – that is – let Air feed the Fire – and spread out to fill you completely. This energy will help you to connect to and enhance your will power, your creative ability, your ability to take action and sexual expression.
• Stay with it for a while and watch how it burns – this will tell you a lot about yourself. Is it a small flame or a large one? Does it burn with great heat or not? Does it keep going out? Learn from the amount of Fire element you hold in your energy system.
• After a while – make sure you disconnect fully – on every level – and earth any excess energy in your system which will have been generated by connecting with a star!
In its negative aspect, the Fire element can also spark your anger, your fear and prevent you from taking action if you are not properly aligned to your will power. None of these things are wrong. They are just showing you that your Fire energy is not properly balanced in your system in some way, but after you notice them you can do something about it.
Also you can have a lack of Fire in your system or an excess and either of these will be easy to spot! If you lack Fire, stimulate it in some way, and if you have an excess – use Water to balance it. You can visualise Water in some form in your solar plexus chakra, or you can use an aquamarine at the chakra point with the intention of balancing your Fire element. This crystal holds the energy of the Water element within it.
So – spend some time between now and Beltane thinking about Fire and how its fabulous, vibrant energy can help you.
Bright Blessings.
Gailx